Last week I was tagged by Wendy at A Wee Bit of Cooking on the subject of home with a meme for Refugee Week 2009. The campaign aims to raise awareness of refugees’ contributions to society through a wide range of cultural and educational programmes nationwide. Inspired by the the Simple Actscampaign encouraging people to do one little thing to understand the experience of being an exile a little better Wendy has provided a meme , “What Does Home Mean to You?” with the challenge post three photos which represent “home” to you and write a little about each one , check out her post here

Home is where the heart is

They say home is where the heart is and thats even more true recently for me. Nick and I have been together for a couple of years, commuting back and forth weekends between eachothers respective homes in the South West and Derbyshire. One Sunday a few months ago as the usual sadness at leaving settled in , packing my clothes up. I finally said enough and committed to making his home mine.

Homegrown

One of the most positive things about leaving my small studio flat in the centre of Bristol is having a garden. Which for me is an increasingly big part of home . I had brought seeds from my previous gardens , now scattered around the edible poppies & nasturtiums are coming into flower , we have also dug a vege-patch so increasingly we will be eating home-grown

Homemade

Well this is a foodblog after all for my mum and step-dads were visit this weekend . I wanted to make something of a tribute to my new home in Derbyshire , Bakewell Tart. This dish was supposedly created by accident when an inexperienced cook was making a jam tart and forgot to put the almond egg mix into the pastry Not sure I believe the story but it’s a delicious tart reminiscent of a frangipane or even tart au citron. Bakewell Tart.

I’m bookmarking this I can have a go at making a bakewell tart — it’s one I’ve always meant to have a go at.
I find the subject/concept of home very interesting. It’s something one of my professors at university made me think about a lot. And now as an expat myself, and parent to a child born not in my “home” country with friends from many other countries in my life my sense of home is multilayered and evolving. I’m not a refugee thankfully so I can move between my “home” in the US and going “home” to visit England but there’s this Home and Away thing my professor talked about that I understand more clearly now; each place is simultaneously home and away which can be really disconcerting. So much to think about! I’ll have to take a look at the links you posted.

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About Me

Becky a 30 something old Brit , living in Nottingham,UK, Though this blog and I started our lives in Bristol.

I love to cook with seasonal fresh and often wild ingredients from foraged ingredients from the city and country.
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